A reminder

Please work on developing your e-portfolio!  The first draft is due Thursday, 11/21--not long now!  Please submit this first draft in Digication, in the relevant assignment in our course in Digication (http://bhcc.digication.com)

Today, you will receive three handouts:
Zora Neale Hurston, How It Feels to be Colored Me (1928)
Richard Rodriguez, The Achievement of Desire (1982)
Adrienne Rich, Claiming an Education (1977)

Please read these by Tuesday.  In different ways, they all speak to diversity in America and American education, the topics we are thinking about most at this moment in the class.  Please write a two or three paragraph journal response to whichever one YOU find most compelling and email it to me by noon on next Tuesday, November 12.  In your response, identify a compelling and important idea in the essay or speech you have chosen, and discuss how it relates to your personal experience.

In addition, by Tuesday, please think of three questions for the interviews we will conduct on Thursday, November 14.  For information on this please see the "interview questions assignment" linked in the previous post.

Please also work on preparing for the oral exam, coming up the week of November 25.  Here is the guide for the upcoming oral exam.

Interview questions assignment

Another extra credit opportunity!

For extra credit, attend the BHCC Jazz Ensemble's performance on November 14 at 1:00 PM in A-300.  Comment on this post with a remark of three paragraphs.  First, identify what jazz is and talk briefly about the significance of jazz in American culture.  Then, connect those observations to what you observed in the performance.  Then, connect the performance to some major theme of the course (wealth, religion, liberty, immigration, dissent, diversity, etc.)

In order to earn extra credit, please make your comment by Sunday, November 17, at 11:59 PM.

Today and Tuesday, we will have short presentations on your projects-in-progress!  Please arrive prepared to present; I will choose at random who will get to present today and who will get to present Tuesday.  Please arrive prepared to give your classmates feedback, too!

Upcoming extra credit!

Hello!  If you'd like to earn extra credit, attend "An Evening With Martin and Langston" at BHCC on November 12 at 6:00 PM, and comment on this post reflecting on what you learned from the event.  Your comment should be at least two paragraphs long.

To earn extra credit, post your comment by Friday, November 15, at 11:59 PM.

Thank you for your hard work in the oral exams!  The highest score was a 98--congratulations to the participant in our class who earned that score!

For Tuesday, as you know from the syllabus, you should please read:

Chapter 7: Government and politics in the United States

Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail


On Thursday, we won't meet in our usual room.  Instead, we will meet in E-230, the TLITC E-portfolio lab.  Please join us there for a session introducing how we will use e-portfolio in our course this semester.